Esports Will DESTROY Fighting Games | Dead Or Alive 4 Review

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Esports Will DESTROY Fighting Games | Dead Or Alive 4 Review. There is a lot of talk right now about how much the fighting game genre is "thriving" because if you look at peak metrics like Evo tournament entrants and sponsorship prize money, things have never been better, right? But the metric that no one seems to want to look at is the thinning out of the fighting game genre as a whole. Sure Tekken, Guilty Gear, and Street Fighter are doing well, but what has happened to the once densely populated fighting game landscape? What has happened to once extremely popular series like King Of Fighters, Dead or Alive, Soul Caliber, Virtua Fighter, and many more? They've all withered away. The reason for this, as I'll explore in the video, is because the fighting game genre actually grew and prospered under the arcade business model, but now that the arcade business model is dead, the genre has been orphaned and adopted by a new step daddy -- esports. And while I think competitive fighting games are really cool and I enjoy watching tournaments more than most, I think it's also important to discuss what the ramifications of following the esports model of game design will mean for the majority of the genre, extinction. I'll explain why this is in further detail in the video, but one really interesting game that is often overlooked is the peak of the arcade era game design, Dead or Alive 4. These days most "serious" fighting game players treat DOA, even the classic entries, as basically a joke because the way these games are designed does not fit neatly into the esports model of game design and balance (fox only, final destination). But as a piece of video game design, not as an esports platform, Dead or Alive 4, created by Team Ninja, is doing A LOT right that other modern fighting games could certainly learn from (Strong Enemy AI, Fully Features Modes) especially fighting games that have no hope of being major esports to begin with *cough* Dead or Alive 6. If you want to check out Dead or Alive 4, which I highly recommend, you can get it for basically nothing on the Xbox 360 with the physical disc. But if you want a more convient way to play the game, the Xbox 1 version runs really well and you can access the online leaderboards without Xbox Live which is fantastic. Then on PC there is no Steam version (and probably never will be), but you can play it via Xenia Canary with some graphics and audio glitches that I expect will be sorted out in the near future. Amazing Thumbnail Created by @boghogSTG Patreon https://www.patreon.com/electricunderground [$2 tier = Monthly Game Review Vote, Name in Credits, Exclusive Monthly Podcast] [$5 tier = Double Monthly Game Review Vote, By Name Shout-out, Name in Credits, Exclusive Monthly Podcast] Website: https://theelectricundergr.wixsite.com/the-electric-undergr STG Revision 2020 Discord: https://discord.gg/snRueeH 00:00 The Dangers of the Esports Model (Winner Takes All) 06:27 Dead or Alive 4 Reduces TURNS and Increases INTERACTION 11:45 Gameplay "Depth" Is Over-rated and Misunderstood. PACE Matters. 15:10 Esports is Shortening the New Game Lifespan and Killing Longevity. 21:30 The Timeless Visuals of Dead or Alive 4 Still Hold Up 26:30 THE GEM of Dead or Alive 4 - Difficulty and MODES 31:00 What Makes Single Player Content GOOD (Hint: It's Not RPG Mechanics) #esports, #deadoralive, #tekken8